John Dulin received his PhD in Sociocultural from the University of California, San Diego in 2016. Between 2016 and 2018 he conducted research as a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. His research interests include the study of human values, symbolic and semiotic anthropology, interreligious relations, and religious experience, with a geographic focus on North America, Ethiopia, and Ghana. As an Assistant Professor of anthropology at UVU, he teaches classes on the anthropology of religion, peace and violence, ethnographic methods, and contemporary anthropological theory.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:
2023. "Like it's Already Done": Spiritual Experience, Hope, and Optimism in Southern Ghana. Anthropological Quarterly.
2022. Are Salafis and Pentecostals the Same? How Orthodox and Sufi Mediation Practices Shape Responses to Reformism in Gondar, Ethiopia. North East African Studies.
2021. Charismatic Christianity's Hard Cultural Forms and the Local Patterning of the Divine Voice in Ghana. American Anthropologist.
2021. Value-Dense Indexes and the Escalation of a Muslim-Christian Conflict. History and Anthropology.
2020. Introduction: Religion, Secrecy, and the Ethics of Discernment. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (co-authored with Simon Coleman). Early online publication.
2020. `My Fast is better than your Fast?: Concealing Interreligious Evaluations and Discerning Respectful Others in Gondar, Ethiopia. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. Early online publication.
2020. Vulnerable Minds, Bodily-Thoughts, and Sensory Spirits: Cultural Theory of Mind and Spiritual Experience in Ghana. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 26(S1): 61-76.
2017. Transvaluing ISIS in Orthodox Christian-Majority Ethiopia: On the Inhibition of Group Violence. Current Anthropology. 58(6): 785-804.
2015. Reversing Rupture: Evangelicals' Practice of Jewish Rituals and Processes of Protestant Inclusion. Anthropological Quarterly. 88(3): 601-
Ethnographic Methods WE, Spring 2025
Introduction to Theory and Ethnography WE, Spring 2025
Social Cultural Anthropology SS GI, Spring 2025
Social Cultural Anthropology SS GI, Spring 2025
Social Cultural Anthropology SS GI, Spring 2025
Social Cultural Anthropology SS GI, Spring 2025
Social Cultural Anthropology SS GI, Spring 2025
Social Cultural Anthropology SS GI, Spring 2025
Social Cultural Anthropology SS GI, Spring 2025
Social Cultural Anthropology SS GI, Spring 2025
Social Cultural Anthropology SS GI, Spring 2025
I received a spot award for collaborating with Connie Ericksen on the archaeology practicum she planned at the Capitol Reef field station. Connie is an adjunct anthropology faculty member and had planned to lead the trip with another full-time faculty member, but that person had to back out at the last minute. I went on the week-long trip and helped with day-to-day tasks. I also ran a research workshop at Connie's request.
My department chair, Rachel Arocho, nominated me for a $1,000 SPOT award in recognition of my role in making the trip possible and maintaining my regular teaching responsibilities remotely, which is confirmed in an official award email attached.
I received the higher education academy fellowship in the Spring of 2023. I've included the certificate and acceptance letter under supporting documents. This is an example of a significant teaching practice according to RTP criteria.
